CWE-278— Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions
A product inherits a set of insecure permissions for an object, e.g. when copying from an archive file, without user awareness or involvement.— MITRE CWE catalog
7 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
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- CVE-2019-14910CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82019-12-05
A vulnerability was found in keycloak 7.x, when keycloak is configured with LDAP user federation and StartTLS is used instead of SSL/TLS from the LDAP server (ldaps), in this case user authentication succeeds even if invalid password has e…
- CVE-2023-38497HIGHCVSS 7.9EG 7.92023-08-04
Cargo downloads the Rust project’s dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2, bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on UNIX-like systems. If the use…
- CVE-2024-36538HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-07-24
Insecure permissions in chaos-mesh v2.6.3 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtaining the service account's token.
- CVE-2024-37769HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-07-05
Insecure permissions in 14Finger v1.1 allow attackers to escalate privileges from normal user to Administrator via a crafted POST request.
- CVE-2024-38531LOWCVSS 3.6EG 3.62024-06-28
Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. A build process has access to and can change the permissions of the build directory. After creating a setuid binary in a glo…
- CVE-2025-2947HIGHCVSS 7.2EG 7.22025-04-17
IBM i 7.6 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to incorrect profile swapping in an OS command. A malicious actor can use the command to elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system.
- CVE-2026-6265HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-04-27
Insecure preserved inherited permissions vulnerability in Cerberus FTP Server on Windows allows Privilege Escalation.This issue has been resolved in Cerberus FTP Server: 2026.1
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